Making Money Making War
CURRY: You don’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war?
BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. —Think Progress
Explains a lot, doesn’t it? We sink a trillion dollars into his idiot wars, and he’s claiming victory because a handful of his rich friends are getting richer. The wars go badly, the economy is tanking, but life looks good in Bushville because somebody’s raking in obscene profits.
We can all be thankful that this reign of errors is almost over. But we have to wonder whether President Obama will be able to seriously change the war machine. As Robert Scheer writes:
The U.S. already spends more than the rest of the world combined on its military, without a sophisticated enemy in sight. The Bush budget cuts not a single weapons system, including the most expensive ones, those designed to combat a Soviet military that no longer exists. Those sophisticated weapons have nothing to do with combating terrorism and everything to do with jobs and profits that motivate both Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
This is why we are forever marching off to foreign wars, and why we will never win nor stopping fighting the domestic war on drugs: too many people are making money making war. Peace is a huge threat to these people and because they have the weapons, the money, the media, and the political power they won’t give up without a fight.
And fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity — we simply cannot stop them using their means and methods. Which is why millions of people taking to the streets were not enough to stop one little man from having his invasion.
The only peace movement that can change all of this must come from within the power elites. More than anything, we need an American President to finally start doing the right things and to inspire the rest of the politicians and talking heads to get on board.
Subject: A CRIMINAL THEN, A CRIMINAL NOW !!
Co-President, Hillary Clinton
The Roughcut Trailer for - Hillary! Uncensored - the Documentary.
This video shows the Peter Paul side of the issue, which involves allegations that Hillary Clinton has committed numerous federal election law violations, has lied about them to cover them up, all culminating in what might be felonious conduct on her part. Paul makes a strong case here. Will the media continue to do its best to bury what might be the largest election fraud in US history?
The top donor to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking the agency to re-open an investigation into illegal contributions and to probe alleged continuing violations of the law by the Democratic presidential candidate. The complaint by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul also asserts the Clinton campaign’s 2005 conciliation agreement with the FEC – in which a finance aide was fined $35,000 – effectively let Clinton and other top aides off the hook.
The new documentary film “Indicting Hillary” shows Hillary Clinton’s role in the campaign fraud that elected her to the Senate. It combines explosive home video taken by Peter Paul with key interviews to show why Hillary Clinton is unfit to lead America.
Hillary Clinton became the first first lady to testify before a grand jury when she was subpeonaed by the Whitewater grand jury.
• Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc. At issue was a $100,000 windfall from cattle futures after a $1,000 investment.
• Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.
• Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.
• Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.
• Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster’s documents in the Rose Law Firm.
• In 1996, Hillary was accused by the Senate Special Whitewater Committee of ordering the removal of potentially damaging files related to Whitewater from Foster’s office on the night of his death and telling aides to lie about their removal. Of course, Hillary denied everything.
• Obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.
• Lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
• Lied to investigators about her involvement inthe Castle Grande land flip con.Ordered the use of the FBI to discredit Travel Office employees.
• Lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees. In May 1993, the co-president was accused of having a central hand in firing several long-time employees of the White House Travel Office, the better to give the pricey travel business to her Hollywood pals, Linda Bloodworth Thomason and Harry Thomason. Hillary denied everything and when Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray investigated Travelgate, he concluded that there was substantial evidence that involved Hillary but not enough to warrant an indictment.
• A Federal judge orders a trial on July 25, 1994 to determine if Hillary Clinton’s heath care task force illegally operated in secret.
• The White House finally releases more than 2,000 documents on June 25, 1996, relating to the travel office firings, originally requested two years prior by congressional investigators.
TravelGate
William Kennedy, David Watkins, and Patsy Thomasson was accussed of fabricating charges against White House Travel Office personnel to have the business taken over by Clinton friends. They coerced FBI and IRS agents into complicity with this scheme. Kennedy and Watkins have resigned.
Travel Office employee, Catherine Cornelius removed documents from White House Travel Office. Because those documents later became the subject of a trial against Office Director Billy Dale, that could amount to obstruction of justice.
Filegate
On June 6, 1996, The Los Angeles Times reported that the White House sought confidential FBI background documents on fired White House Travel Office chief Billy Dale. The next day, the White House admits it ordered FBI files of more than 330 people, including dozens of Republican leaders, saying it was working off an “outdated list” of people who had applied for access to the White House. Eventually it is discovered that about 1,000 people’s FBI files were obtained by Clinton officials.
One of those people whose FBI file was obtained by the White House was Linda Tripp, who blazed onto the national scene when she released to Independent Council, Ken Starr, secretly taped conversations she had with Monica Lewinsky about the sexual conduct of the President. Tripp’s connection to FBI files also include her witnessing fellow employees copying FBI files onto White House computers when she worked in the Clinton White House. (The Washington Times, 9/4/98) Tripp is also at the center of conspiracy theories involving Vince Foster’s suicide. Tripp had worked in the early Clinton administration in 1992 as executive assistant to Bernie Nussbaum, then the White House counsel. Tripp first surfaced in the original report on Foster’s death by former independent counsel Robert Fiske. Fiske said in his report, that Tripp was the last person to speak to Foster before he committed suicide. It was also Tripp who provided testimony on what happened inside Foster’s office after word of his death surfaced, again leading to questions of impropriety.
Tripp also is the original source of information regarding Kathryn Willey’s reported claim that Clinton had kissed and fondled her, claiming to be the first person to talk to Willey after she left the Oval Office.
Bill Clinton promised as President that his would be the “most ethical administration in the history of the country.” As you explore the pages of this website, you can decide for yourself whether he lived up to any of that promise.
Change will come from Obama.
Hillary’s family values:
Hillary Clinton commented, “two-mothers, or two men… the children are what’s important… they are for the use of the government…”
Joseph Stiglitz (former chief economist at the World Bank who won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2001) released his latest analysis of US war spending and came up with an estimate of 3 trillion dollars.Three times the
amount media has reported previously.
THINK, who authorized the WAR, who has
profited, and who takes money from the special
interest groups involved in the corruption of
the spending and no bid contracts.
No one knows where the money went ???
Bi-partisan corruption. & Aipac & ISRAEL
Influence on foreign aid & trade. Our give
Away program, backed by Clinton.
Your point is valid, but frustrating. It highlights the powerlessness of the, well, powerless, and makes it seem like all we can do is sit back on our heels and hope to god the people at the top have some conscience left to do what’s not in their own self-interest, a bet that hasn’t led us very far as yet. Furthermore, when people at the top DO try to effect some sort of social change, it’s viewed with suspicion and scorn by not only their contemporaries, but the very people they’re trying to help. So what’s the incentive? It takes massive bravery and intestinal fortitude to go against the grain, and especially when one is already in a position of power.
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